Who Really Wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’?

On January 30, 2018, about two dozen Mossad agents broke into a clandestine warehouse in the middle of an industrial section of Tehran, making away with over 100,000 documents outlining the Islamic regime’s nuclear weapons work. This collection covered years of Iran’s nuclear archive, including the Amad program’s production plans, enrichment projections, and warhead designs.

Flash forward seven years. According to an article that came out recently in Iran International, the Director of the International Atomic Energy Administration, (the IAEA), Rafael Grossi said, “Iran is not far from having a nuclear problem.  They don’t have it, we know it. But the material for it already, it’s already there. To make a few warheads.”

Grossi added that “it would be a matter of months, not years”; and that the level of visibility is “insufficient.”

This is certainly verified by Andrea Stricker of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who recently wrote about a small building being destroyed by the Israelis in their September 2024 attack, as part of the Parchin military project.  The building was not on the list of what the IAEA had planned to visit, nor to other Amad sites.

A 2018 Mossad document revealed that this building was used to test the explosive capability of a nuclear bomb’s core, known as a “hydrodynamic chain reaction”. Yet the IAEA could not enter it, and Rafael Grossi did not appear to even be aware of what was going on there.

  This brings up one of the great flaws of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, (JCPOA):  The IAEA does not have immediate access to monitor and verify areas of Iranian nuclear weaponization. According to Section T of the JCPOA, Iran must “describe in writing its activity”, and the IAEA would simply engage in verification, post facto.

What, if anything, is to prevent a rogue state, such as Iran, from concealing their nuclear program?

The JCPOA also says that Iran must collect its own soil samples for inspection of nuclear particles, (which is tantamount to saying that a serial drug user must conduct his own drug tests.)

 Yet, about one month ago, the US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, while speaking before a Senate Intelligence Committee, declared that the “The International Community continues to access that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Khomeini has not authorized its nuclear weapon program that it suspended in 2003.” She also added “In the past decade, we have seen a taboo within Iran against discussing Iran’s nuclear operations in public, likely emboldening nuclear weapns advocates in its decision making public” She also added that “Iran’s nuclear stockpiles are at its highest levels and it is unprecedented for state without nuclear weapons.”

Iran now possesses enough highly enriched uranium at the 60 percent level for at least six nuclear bombs. Israel is a one bomb state.

Iran has just reported that after three years’ time, they are turning on the cameras in their nuclear sites- at least the ones that we know about.

After Israel decimated several of Iranian defensive nuclear sites in September, 2024; and with Hezbollah and Hamas in a tattered state; and President Trump attempting to obliterate the Houthis from the Bad al-Mandeb Strait; and with the Iranian rial worth 0.000024 of a dollar, a majority of the 90 million people are reportedly disgusted with the theocracy.

Most people have been born after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a slim majority, (50.1 per cent) classify themselves as atheists. Many mosques, (approximately 75,000) have been recently shuttered in Tehran.

Still-and-all, I appreciate that President Trump wrote “The Art of the Deal”, but remain highly concerned that the regime might want to play out the clock, and use the time as a smokescreen to conceal its weaponization program.

Remember it is the Iranians who first invented the Persian Bazaar.

Sarah N. Stern is Founder and President of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, EMET.